
Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
Lead Full Stack Developer
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong full stack development experience (ideally 10 years)
- 5 years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience
- Solid background in system design and scalable architectures
- Experience building large, production SaaS platforms
- A clean-code mindset (SOLID principles, design patterns, testable code)
- Experience working in mature CI/CD and continuous deployment environments
- A commercial mindset when designing and delivering software
- Excellent collaboration skills and confidence working with stakeholders
- Interest in using AI to accelerate and improve software development
- A passion for performance, security and engineering best practice
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience
- Lead technical delivery across a high-performing development squad (10)
- Contribute to solution design, system architecture and domain modelling
- Build proof-of-concepts and spike complex or uncertain areas of work
- Break down requirements into deliverable epics and user stories alongside product and initiative managers
- Develop and deliver production-ready code across the full stack
- Ensure high standards of quality, maintainability, performance and security
- Support and improve live systems once deployed
- Influence technical direction, tooling and best practice across the wider engineering function
- AI
- CI/CD
- Support
- JavaScript
- Security
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- NodeJS
- Redis
- SQL
- Snowflake
- Vue
- microservices
- Fullstack
More:
We are a fast-growing UK SaaS technology company that builds data-driven digital products used by commercial teams to better understand and engage with their customers. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, along with hybrid working arrangements (1 day per week in the Fareham office). This is a unique opportunity to join a scaling UK SaaS business with a strong engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement. Our environment is supportive and collaborative, and we engage in community and charity initiatives, including volunteer days.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
Guildford
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£100,000
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£85,000
UK median
This salary is 18% above the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks